Empirical Analysis of the Sample Correlation for the Planning of Field Trials in the Digital Broadcasting Services at MF Band

The recent digital broadcasting services developed for the MF and HF bands require the accurate definition of the measurement conditions to be applied both in the planning of future field trials and in the analysis of the signal variability. This paper describes the outcomes of the necessary distance between adjacent measuring points of field trials, which must be uncorrelated samples. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the analysis of the distance between uncorrelated samples allows validating the normalization process of the received signal. The study has been carried out for several reception environments.